Steven Miller: Greenland rightfully belongs to America
Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, believes that Greenland rightfully belongs to the United States, and that the Trump administration can seize this semi-autonomous Danish territory if it wishes.
According to RCO News Agency, in an ierview with CNN, Miller said: “No one is going to go to war with America over the future of Greenland.”
These statemes are part of Miller’s appare attempt to justify US imperialism and a vision of a new world order in which America can freely overthrow national governmes and seize foreign territory and resources as long as it is in national ierest.
Miller coinued: “We live in a real world governed by power, force, and domination. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Trump’s deputy chief of staff made the commes after his wife, right-wing American podcaster Kathy Miller, posted a provocative image of a map of Greenland covered with the US flag and captioned her post: “Coming soon.”
The move sparked immediate reactions in Denmark and heightened concerns about Trump’s plans for Greenland.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Sunday asked the US preside to “stop threats” to annex Greenland, which is actually an attack on a NATO ally.
A US seizure of Greenland by force would tear up the original agreeme underpinning the NATO military alliance, of which Denmark and the US are both founding members. According to this agreeme, an attack on any member is considered as an attack on all members. Trump had previously said that he would not rule out the use of the military to occupy Greenland.
Miller also reiterated Trump’s desire to corol and run Venezuela and extract its vast oil resources after the attack on the coury on the morning of January 3 and the arrest and transfer of Venezuelan Preside Nicolás Maduro and his wife to the United States.
Even some of America’s staunchest allies have criticized the attack, with UN Secretary-General Aonio Guterres saying it violated the UN Charter.
Rejecting iernational treaties that guaraee a nation’s right to independence and sovereigy, Miller called them “iernational considerations,” stating that “the United States of America governs Venezuela.” (Exactly what the Venezuelan “administration” means is a matter of dispute; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has shied away from the description, even as Trump insists the US is largely “responsible” for Venezuela and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has fiercely defended military action, insists the US is not engaged in military hostilities or occupation.)
The tone of Trump’s deputy chief of staff evokes the dark history of US rule over weaker and smaller couries in Latin America by using its military might. Miller claimed that a military blockade of Venezuela, with a population of 28 million, would lead to the United States taking corol of Venezuela.
“We have set the terms and conditions,” Miller told Fox News. We have a total embargo on all their oil and their ability to trade. So in order for them to do business, they need our permission. They need our permission to run the economy. So the US is responsible. “The United States is running Venezuela.”
In the meaime, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independe American lawmaker, also criticized Miller’s words and said: “Miller gave a good meaning of imperialism. Trump has made it very clear that he is looking to seize Venezuela’s oil. This is imperialism. “I think people around the world are saying we’re going back to where we were 100 years ago or 50 years ago, where big, powerful couries were exploiting poorer couries for their natural resources.”
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